Adulthood Quotes

270 Adulthood quotes by 230 unique authors

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer. — Andy Warhol
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. — H.G. Wells
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young. — Helen Fisher
Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of… — Caroline Knapp
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood. — Bill Watterson
Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket… — Jerry Seinfeld
As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood. — Jim Henson
Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I… — Orson Scott Card
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary… — Nathaniel Branden
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God. — Scott Dikkers
A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult… — Junot Diaz
Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind. — Alex Shakar
Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and… — Richard Paul Evans
Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After… — Peter V. Brett
But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of… — Cynthia Leitich Smith
Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to… — Natalie Angier
When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The… — Gail Carson Levine
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds,… — David Mitchell
Has it ever occurred to you," he said abruptly, "that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking… — Stephen King
Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to… — Meg Cabot
It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being… — Lauren Oliver
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. — Bruce Springsteen
[Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore… — Dylan Moran
At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy… — Daniel J. Siegel
Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle… — Curtis Sittenfeld

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